From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1st July
Source of text:
MS JT/1/12/4029-33; 4:3000, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
1st July 1855.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/605, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-7-1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.109-110, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A31–A35
Summary:
Sends a list of plants with stamps to pay the Hitcham girls who will collect seeds for him.
Describes his work with seeds in salt water.
For his experiments he would like seeds collected from plants that grow both near Hitcham and in the Azores.
Explains again what JSH should do in marking "close species".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Carew Hunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1855
Source of text:
DAR 166: 282
Summary:
Answers queries on Azores fauna and flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[2 July 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.156
Summary:
Thanks WS for 'kind expressions on my behalf.' Believes these may be the last words he may write.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
3 July [1855]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/44)
Summary:
Reports success of seed-soaking experiments. Celery and onion germinate after 85 days’ immersion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 July 1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.111, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Frederick Bashford; Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A56
Summary:
Notes on the interbreeding of different races of silkworm. [Forwarded with explanatory note by Edward Blyth.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 140
Summary:
Has named 35 species of grasses.
Seed-salting continues.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.365
Summary:
Has heard from W. H. Smyth that JH is suffering from serious and protracted indisposition. Hopes he will soon be restored to health as he himself has been.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sarah Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/5/16/159, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
7 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A36–A37, A114
Summary:
Thanks JSH for seeds.
Clarifies his request about marking [London] catalogue [of British plants] – JSH is to mark those he thinks really are species, but which are very closely allied to some other species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 192–3
Summary:
Australian Leguminosae problem: of 900 species not ten are common to southwest and southeast. No migration; hence either creation or variation.
Himalayan thistles: graded intermediates between large and small English species, "shakes species to their foundations". Similarity of CD’s and his views on species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 July 1855]
Source of text:
RGO 6.336.52
Summary:
Has had a letter from Melbourne University, with instructions to transfer all the money to Melbourne's agent in London [see GA's 1855-5-30]; JH is slowly recovering.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 July [1855]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:
Asks GRW if there is any easy systematic work on Lepidoptera for his sons. Considers making out the names from descriptions fine practice for the intellect; mere collecting is idle work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Hawker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 July 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/2/7/149, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10th, July 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/12/4034-6; 4:3004, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A38–A39
Summary:
Asks for advice on establishing a control group in his experiments to produce sports and varieties of Lychnis diurna.
Seeks seeds of wild Dianthus for hybridising and producing varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Wednesady morning before 6 o'c
Source of text:
HP 1:19, IC
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project